Device and method for outputting bioinformation and bioinformation report

• US 20060258943A1
• Filed: 04/20/2006
• Published: 11/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fukuda Denshi Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Fukuda Denshi Company Limited
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Tomoyuki, Ogawa, Yasuei, Muraki, Yoshiya
• Granted Patent: US 8,016,762 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/485
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/022 by applying pressure to close blood vessels, e.g. against the skin; Ophthalmodynamometers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02225 using the oscillometric method
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7445 Display arrangements, e.g. multiple display units

Abstract

Blood pressure values measured in four limbs are plotted on first to fourth linear axes which extend from an origin in an upper right direction, an upper left direction, a lower left direction, and a lower right direction respectively, and a rectangle composed of vertices which are determined by the plotted blood pressure values is illustrated to present the blood pressure values. This allows a specific measured value in each site to be easily known, and the relationships between the blood pressure values in the four limbs are intuitively understood from the shape of the rectangle.

Claims

1. A bioinformation report to present bioinformation including at least a blood pressure value, comprising:

a blood pressure value presenting region which has first to fourth linear axes extending in an upper right direction, an upper left direction, a lower left direction, and a lower right direction respectively from an origin, the first and the second axes being arranged to be symmetrical to each other relative to a straight line running straight through the origin from top to bottom of the region, and the third and the fourth axes being arranged to be symmetrical to each other relative to the straight line,

the blood pressure value presenting region wherein;

a blood pressure value measured in an upper left or upper right limb is plotted on the first axis,

a blood pressure value measured in an upper right or upper left limb is plotted on the second axis,

a blood pressure value measured in a lower limb on the same side as that for the blood pressure value plotted on the second axis is plotted on the third axis,

a blood pressure value measured in a lower limb on the same side as that for the blood pressure value plotted on the first axis is plotted on the fourth axis, and

a rectangle composed of vertices which are determined by the blood pressure values plotted on the first to fourth axes is illustrated.

2. The bioinformation report according to claim 1, wherein the plotting on the first to fourth axes and the illustration of the rectangle are performed with respect to at least two of a systolic blood pressure value, a diastolic blood pressure value and a mean blood pressure value.

3. The bioinformation report according to claim 1, further comprising an indicator to illustrate, on the basis of one of the blood pressure values measured in an upper left limb, an upper right limb, a lower left limb and a lower right limb, a normal range of the other three blood pressure values.

4. The bioinformation report according to claim 1, wherein the first axis and the third axis, and the second axis and the fourth axis are drawn as a straight line respectively.

5. The bioinformation report according to claim 1, wherein the first axis and the third axis, and the second axis and the fourth axis are drawn as a straight line respectively, and these two straight lines are orthogonal to each other.

6. The bioinformation report according to claim 1, wherein the scaling of the first to fourth axes are determined so that the rectangle has a square-like shape when the relative relationship among the blood pressure values measured in an upper left limb, an upper right limb, a lower left limb and a lower right limb is within a normal range.

7. The bioinformation report according to claim 1, wherein the first to fourth axes have the same scales and the same range.

8. The bioinformation report according to claim 1, further comprising an indicator to illustrate a coordinate, corresponding to the higher one of the blood pressure values plotted on the first axis and the second axis, on the axis on which the lower one of the blood pressure values is plotted.

9. The bioinformation report according to claim 1, wherein when it is determined that one of the blood pressure values to be plotted on the first axis and the second axis was not normally measured, the other blood pressure value is plotted as a measured value as the one of the blood pressure values.

10. The bioinformation report according to claim 1, wherein when it is determined that one of the blood pressure values to be plotted on the third axis and the fourth axis was not normally measured, the other blood pressure value is plotted as a measured value as the one of the blood pressure values.

11. The bioinformation report according to claim 1, wherein an image of a human body is illustrated in the blood pressure value presenting region so that the correspondences between the positions where the blood pressure values to be plotted on the first to fourth axes are measured can be recognized.

12. The bioinformation report according to claim 1, wherein an arrow is further illustrated in the blood pressure value presenting region, the arrow having a size and direction depending on the relation between a blood pressure value in an upper limb and a blood pressure value in a lower limb which are plotted on the same right or left side.

13. The bioinformation report according to claim 12, wherein the arrow has a direction defined by a ratio between a blood pressure value in an upper limb and a blood pressure value in a lower limb which are plotted on the same right or left side, and a size defined by the blood pressure value in the upper limb and the blood pressure value in the lower limb which are plotted on the same right or left side.

14. The bioinformation report according to claim 12, wherein the arrow has a beginning point at the origin and is illustrated as a resultant vector representing the sum of vectors having end points determined by respective blood pressure values in an upper limb and a blood pressure value in a lower limb which are plotted on the same right or left side.

15. The bioinformation report according to claim 12, wherein:

the arrow has a beginning point at the origin; and

the arrow is illustrated so that the arrow has an end point at the middle point of a straight line connecting an intersection between a straight line extending upward vertically from the origin and a straight line extending horizontally from a coordinate corresponding to the higher of the blood pressure values in upper limbs and a coordinate of a blood pressure value in a lower limb.

16. The bioinformation report according to claim 1, further comprising an arrow which has a beginning point at the origin and extends in a direction toward a contraposition to the barycenter of the rectangle.

17. The bioinformation report according to claim 1, wherein, when a magnitude of difference between the blood pressure values in an upper right limb and an upper left limb is a predetermined value or more, an indicator, which has a length depending on either the magnitude of difference or a magnitude of ratio between the blood pressure values in an upper right limb and an upper left limb, is illustrated on the one of the first and the second axes on which the lower one of the blood pressure values in an upper limbs is plotted, with a beginning point at the origin.

18. The bioinformation report according to claim 17, wherein the smaller the ratio is or the larger the difference is, the longer the indicator is.

19. The bioinformation report according to claim 1, wherein, when a ratio between the blood pressure values in an upper limb and a lower limb plotted on the same right or left side is an abnormal value, an indicator having a length depending on the value of the ratio and a beginning point at the origin is illustrated on one of the third and the fourth axis on which the blood pressure values in the lower limbs are plotted.

20. The bioinformation report according to claim 17, wherein, when a ratio between the blood pressure values in an upper limb and a lower limb plotted on the same right or left side is an abnormal value, an indicator having a length depending on the value of the ratio and a beginning point at the origin is illustrated on one of the third and the fourth axis on which the blood pressure values in the lower limbs are plotted.

21. The bioinformation report according to claim 19, wherein, the smaller the ratio is, the longer the indicator is.

22. A recording media on which the bioinformation report according to claim 1 is to be printed out.

23. The recording media according to claim 22, wherein the first to fourth axes are printed out in advance in the blood pressure presenting region.

24. A bioinformation outputting device, comprising:

obtaining unit adapted to obtain blood pressure values measured in four limbs;

layout unit adapted to generate a report which presents the blood pressure values in a common two dimensional region; and

outputting unit adapted to output the report;

and wherein the report comprises a blood pressure value presenting region which has first to fourth linear axes extending in an upper right direction, an upper left direction, a lower left direction, and a lower right direction respectively from an origin, the first and the second axes being arranged to be symmetrical to each other relative to a straight line running straight through the origin from top to bottom of the report, and the third and the fourth axes being arranged to be symmetrical to each other relative to the straight line, wherein

a blood pressure value measured in an upper left or upper right limb is plotted on the first axis;

a blood pressure value measured in an upper right or upper left limb is plotted on the second axis;

a blood pressure value measured in a lower limb on the same side as that for the blood pressure value plotted on the second axis is plotted on the third axis;

a blood pressure value measured in a lower limb on the same side as that for the blood pressure value plotted on the first axis is plotted on the fourth axis; and

a rectangle composed of vertices which are determined by the blood pressure values plotted on the first to fourth axes is illustrated.

25. A method to output bioinformation, comprising:

an obtaining step of obtaining blood pressure values measured in four limbs;

a layout step of generating a report which presents the blood pressure values in a common two dimensional region; and

an outputting step of outputting the report,

and wherein the report comprises a blood pressure value presenting region which has first to fourth linear axes extending in an upper right direction, an upper left direction, a lower left direction, and a lower right direction respectively from an origin, the first and the second axes being arranged to be symmetrical to each other relative to a straight line running straight through the origin from top to bottom of the report, and the third and the fourth axes being arranged to be symmetrical to each other relative to the straight line, wherein

a blood pressure value measured in an upper left or upper right limb is plotted on the first axis;

a blood pressure value measured in an upper right or upper left limb is plotted on the second axis;

a blood pressure value measured in a lower limb on the same side as that for the blood pressure value plotted on the second axis is plotted on the third axis;

a blood pressure value measured in a lower limb on the same side as that for the blood pressure value plotted on the first axis is plotted on the fourth axis; and

a rectangle composed of vertices which are determined by the blood pressure values plotted on the first to fourth axes is illustrated.